10 Classic Action Movie Drinking Games that Might Get You Killed

There are some movies that feel like we’ve seen them at least 100 times. And yet we keep watching them. It’s almost a “secure” feeling when your flipping around the channels and a movie you know you love comes on. But even I who loves watching some movies over and over can get a little tired of the repetitiveness.

So what do we do? We find ways to make them interesting. We find new things, little things, that we hadn’t before. Perhaps a face, a new line, something that’ll keep us amused.

And sometimes we just flat out play games. Drinking games and movies have become a huge part of our culture and I’ve managed to locate 10 involving action movies that I think you’ll find quite funny…and maybe useful!

1. Maverick does anything outside of regulations
2. Maverick acts up in class
3. Anyone sings
4. Anyone is shown flexing strangely while playing volleyball
5. Maverick and Goose get chewed out by anyone
6. Iceman and Maverick have a confrontation
7. A plane is shown taking off.

1. Axel laughs
2. Anyone says “Beverly Hills”
3. The movie’s theme music is played
4. Axel takes on a new persona
5. A gun is pulled out
6. The dead guy, Mikey, is referenced

Empire Strikes Back

Drink When….

1. Leia and Han bicker
2. The Millenium Falcon fails to go into hyperspeed
3. Luke fails a Jedi training task
4. Obi-Wan is shown or mentioned
5. The force is mentioned
6. A lightsaber is turned on or off
7. Anyone yells at or about C-3PO
8. The Dark Side is mentioned

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24 Comments

steveJune 3, 2010

i played one with Pulp Fiction which involved taking a drink when;

anyone says “fuck”
someone uses or mentions drugs
someone gets shot

there were some others but i forget them.

the worst of it though was there’d be a few scenes void of any of that, then one scene where they say fuck like 25 times (the bruce willis/missing watch scene comes to mind). so you go like 20 minutes without a drink, then you have to essentially chug 4 beers in/do 20 shots 5 minutes.

not an action film, but the twilight and new moon drinking game could kill you
drink whenever
bella describes how amazing edward is
Jacob is shirtless for no valid reason
a vampire sparkles (bonus shot if they try to make it seem like something horrific and not gay)
Bella’s face is devoid of emotion

its usually easier to just hook a bottle of vodka to a drip in your arm and hope the pain soon goes away

My brother did a Top Gun drinking game once. We drank to all instances of swearing and here’s the kicker: we drank every time they sad a pilot’s “call sign”.

This is a surefire way to hurt yourself. Be prepared to pause to catch up on your drinks. Hell the “You’re too low Cougar” sequence at the beginning itself is enough to put you on a liver replacement list of some sort.

I thought of a generic drinking game that would work with most action movies, especially jackie chan movies or similar types of movies. First you must own one expensive piece of equipment, a keg and keg tap. Watch the movie with the keg full of beer, and drink continuously whenever the audio track of the movie contains English dialog. If you can’t finish the movie by the rules, it’s not really a “good” action movie, however if you can fill the keg with vodka and finish a movie fairly under these rules, it is a great action movie. For novices I would suggest a regular strength beer, most 3.9% beers are pretty similar so I just get whatever’s cheap, although some of them have some flavor additives like herbs and spices.

This works because these words keep getting repeated at the beginning of the film, so you’re nice and sloshed pretty quickly. For example, when Elizabeth is hiding in the closet and the two silly pirate guys find her, they all say “parlay” about six times in one minute. And girls like this movie, so it could be good for your social life….

Every time the ring is mentioned
Every time the word darkness is mentioned
Every time Theoden asserts authority
Every time Aragorn thinks of Arwen
Every time there’s a gay moment with Sam and Frodo
Every time Frodo “dies”
Every time Frodo makes a stupid face